I was in the dark and it was noon time!

The beautiful bridge across the St. Croix River near Stillwater MN

One of Daves and Tina's potbelly pigs that enjoyed Terry's toe!

Now that is a real pot belly pig

The 20-30 horses Tina trains are just magnificent 

Tina's outdoor arena for training and she has an indoor one as well as many heated stalls

As we headed to Wayne and Norma's the sky was just beautiful.

It was quite a day and even turned better when my head came out of the clouds!

My first clue should have been when Terry insisted she bring a visor.  Why would she need a visor to walk 10 feet from the car to their house?  My second clue should have been the table setting and the meal.  Norma had red bandanas for napkins and the food was ham, beans, potato salad etc.  Then after we had finished eating and talked for a short while Norma told me I needed to move our car!  Why?  I thought is she really trying to get rid of us!!!  Well, unknown to me, Norma and Terry had arranged for us to visit Norma's son Dave and daughter in law Tina.  They have a spread just outside of New Richmond WI which is about 15-20 miles east of St. Paul.  Tina is a world class horse trainer and travels all over the country showing horses. She has a 6 horse trailer with a place to sleep and a tack room as well.  Tina has a few horses of her own but mainly she takes in horses and boards them as she trains them.  Tina mentioned that if a person wants her to board and train their horse it costs in triple figures monthly.  They have a great place with horses, dogs, cats, potbelly pigs and more maybe!  It was so so fun and so so interesting to spend time there.  Her husband Dave said he is not a horse guy.  Rather he works full time off the ranch but does much work in fixing, building etc. on the ranch.  Every time I get up close and personal with those kind of horses I am amazed at how beautiful they are.  It was a very fun day even though I was left in the dark for much of it!!!

As always, it was fun to spend time with Norma and Wayne.  Wayne said he does not golf so much now as his game has kind of gone south!  He does work at the course 3 days a week mowing.  On the days he mows he arrives for work at 4:30!  At their age, Wayne turns 86 in a week and Norma looks like she turns 29 soon, they certainly are a couple that is active and doing so well in their mature stage of life.

I fudged on my "thing to do" this morning.  My Kona is and should be saved for Sunday mornings but I made an exception today.  On our way home yesterday we stopped at Costco and I got some Kirkland Irish cream which I had none of at home.  SO of course it was a must this morning to have my Kona coffee and Irish cream.  In the future it will certainly be saved for Sunday only.

I stopped at the hearing aide center at Costco to get batteries and the lady asked if she could clean my aides.  I said of course.  When I went back to pick them up she pointed out that I had the wrong kind of cones on the end that go into the ear.  No wander I had TWO cones stuck in my ear last winter!  I will have to stop at the center in Naples when I get back, "for sure" as they gave me the wrong ones.  She gave me a pack of correct ones for free and Terry and I were on our way with the things we purchased.  One knows that you NEVER go into Costco and come out empty handed.

Well it is another week and another "short" week for work as we will be gone Wednesday and Thursday to visit Judi and John and take in Deb Binde's auction sale.  Those darn stairs will have to be patience as well as other things.

We have a nice cool 59 degree morning so I think I will fertilize the lawn and then I can put weed killer on tomorrow.  Also I have to see if there is any more garden ready to be picked and I know the raspberries need picking as well SO it is sign off and get to work!  I need not say the FP which was Kona and Irish Cream was the best ever!